Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ladies were wearing nylons, one club member explained: "The merchants of Independence made them available so we wouldn't be outshone by the ladies of Washington." That night Harry Truman sent everybody off to the Shrine Circus. Mrs. Truman was very gay until a clown 'tried to sit on her lap. "That will be enough," said the First Lady firmly. Thereafter, and throughout the evening, the ladies noticed that Bess looked rather grim...
...last hot wrangle had been over who the gods should be-civilian or military. That debate dissolved when the services said they only wanted the right to sit in. Another debate was over security measures, which were at first so drastic that some Senators believed they abridged constitutional rights. In the end the Senators hoped they had written a bill which safeguarded the "secrets," at the same time gave honest men protection from their Government. Penalties were drastic enough: fines up to $20,000 and jail sentences up to 20 years for giving out atomic secrets with "intent to injure...
...although he is technically retired, Amadeo Peter Giannini is still in control of his sprawling Goliath. A widower, he lives with his daughter in the gabled house he built in San Mateo before the earthquake. "She has her guests in," he explains, "and they talk or play cards. I sit in a corner and listen to the radio." Every facet of his business still interests him. "My brain never stops," he says. "I think while I sleep...
...flag-draped stage in Atlantic City's Convention Hall, the object of her devotion grinned like a schoolboy, chomped his gum. For redheaded Walter Reuther this was a climax to years of labor wars, to sit-down strikes and bloody noses, to his noisy emergence as a New Day labor-statesman and labor-economist, to the strike at General Motors which had closed that company tight for 113 days. Last week 38-year-old Walter Reuther made his grab for the presidency of the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers. On the floor of the cavernous, smoky hall...
...Education Division, granted a reprieve: AFN's staff of 28, which prepares 88 shows a week, would stand by for another fortnight. A way might be found, the General hinted, to keep the popular AFN network going. The French radio audience could still twist the dial to AFN, sit back and have a good time...